What L2 Creative Writing Teachers Need to Know

Creative Writing Fiction Genres

 

• Adventure: The main character of the story travel to distant places and the story reveals the difficulties faced by protagonist in his journey.

• Comedy: A story intended to make readers laugh. Many funny events are incorporated in the story. The subgenres of comedy creative writing includes:

  • Action Comedy: A combination of action and humor.

  • Black comedy: Tragic events or situations represented in comical way.

  • Horror Comedy: Combination of horror and humor.

  • Slapstick: Physical actions incorporated into the story. These actions humorous and non- violent

  • Romantic Comedy: Simple and light hearted comedy love story which characterizes two protagonists who are in love.

  • Parody: Humorous imitation of writer, character, situation, or artist.

  • Dramedy: Serious drama in combination with comedy.

  • Anarchic comedy: Revealing misbehavior or wild human with help of comedy.

  • Science fiction comedy: Humorous story involving scientific elements.

• Fantasy: Story involving magical powers and supernatural forces.

  • Fairy Tales: Stories most like by kids. It consists of magical characters.

  • Contemporary fantasy: Real world fantasies revolving in modern world.

  • Dark Fantasy: Fantasy stories with imaginary horror elements.

  • Young Adult fantasy: Protagonists is young who deals with adventure in his upcoming life.

  • Mythological fantasy: Mythological elements weaved into fantasy story.

  • Arthurian Fantasy: Fantasy based on King Arthur.

  • Comic Fantasy: Fantasy tales which contains humorous elements.

  • Epic fantasy: Tales of “Good” vs. “Evil” where protagonists save others from villain.

  • High Fantasy: Fantasy which can never be true. It can be of two types:Enormous fantasy world which has no relation to real world and Struggle between Good and Evil for earth.

  • Magic fantasy: Story revolves around consequences of magic done.

  • Science fantasy: Combination of science and fiction elements.

  • Sword and Sorcery: Protagonists battle with use of sword.

• Fables: Involves animals and creature speaking as humans to tell truth.

• Historical: Stories and events that took place in past. This may involve real characters along author developed characters.

  • Traditional History: Historical event told straightforward by author.

  • Multi-period Epics: Focusing on one place and showing how it is changing over years.

  • Sagas: Series of incidents or story carried over families and generations.

  • Western History: Traditional stories that takes place in West.

  • Historical Mysteries: Combination of history and mystery fiction.

  • Romantic History: Love stories that took place in history.

  • Adventure history: Travel and adventure of Historical protagonists.

  • Thriller: Ways in which Historical protagonists save himself from danger.

  • Literary: Contemporary events depicted in strong thoughts to make reader change their outlook about life.

  • Christian History: Specially focusing Christians theme.

  • Time-Slip: Unhappiness and difficulties faced by protagonists during travel across time.

  • Alternate History: Imaginary history developed by author.

  • Historical Fantasy: Combination of history and fantasy genres.

  • Counterfactual history: Exploring the outcome of the events which did not happen in between the actual historical events. It basically tells the reformation of history due to these imaginative events.

• Horror: Story that contains suspense, shock, and violence to frighten and scare reader.

  • Ghost Story: Story of spirits of the dead in living human.

  • Monster Story: Story involves scary creatures or mutants that harm people.

  • Giant Monster: Story consisting of giant monsters which destroy buildings.

  • Slasher: Antagonist is a serial killer or has personality disorder who harms protagonist and kills other characters in the story.

  • Survival horror: How a protagonists save from scary and horrified situations and creature.

• Mystery: Protagonist id trapped in mystery situations where he cannot find a solution initially and gradually control the situation.

  • Caper : Antagonist plan crime and the real criminal is not guessed by the reader till the end.

  • Cozy: Set in small villages where a woman is a criminal and protagonists gather evidences to prove female antagonists against the law.

  • Doctor Detective: Doctors are involved in solving murders.

  • Furry Sleuth: An animal such as cat or a dog is principal investigator of the crime.

  • Handicapped mystery: Story involves a physically challenged person who overcomes the challenges to solve the crime.

  • Legal: Protagonist is a lawyer and solves the mystery case.

  • Private Detective: Number of private investigators is protagonists who are involved in solving the mystery.

  • Romantic mystery: Romance along with murders and investigations.

  • Supernatural mystery: Crime or murder conducted by supernatural power.

  • Whodunit: Investigator present at the place of the murder.

• Superhero fiction: Characterizes superhero fighting against criminals.

• Science Fiction: Imaginative science elements and technologies.​

• Hard Science: More emphasis on scientific ideas than characters.

• Light Science Fiction: More focus on characters and their emotions and less emphasis on technology and law.

• Social Science Fiction: More emphasis on human interaction in society and less emphasis on technology and space.

• Apocalyptic fiction: Imagination of World at the end or after the world ends.

• Cyberpunk: Imagination of future High technology computers, sci-fi, hackers, and computer hybrids.

• First contact: Interaction of humans with aliens.

• Space opera: Protagonist fighting with aliens, robots, or other space creature.